[ale] Live CD to drop on my Dad's computer over thanksgiving?

[Joshua Kite]

Maybe I've been attributing sluggishness to the wrong thing, but I assumed
that the RAM disk also made a difference. Doesn't that lead to full memory
and making more use of the swap file?

Again, I'm not knocking Knoppix or any other live CD. It's just not always a
fair representation of how the system will operate with a full install.

On 11/14/05, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 10:17 -0500, Joshua Kite wrote:
> > I've enjoyed Knoppix as a rescue CD. It's fine for a demo, but it's
> > important to let anyone who's looking at it understand that it's a
> > system hog and will run better once installed.
>
> The only thing it consumes is I/O bandwidth to the CD-ROM. Reading
> anything off CD is slow. Including having a root filesystem on a CD.
>
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